Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

Retink Retunk said:
I don't think I've seen so much dedicated unsubscribing before over such a long period. It's impressive how much of a fuck up Jim is.
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Most declining youtubers either pivot over to something that some portion of their audience continues to want and the bleed dies off, or crash out entirely and vanish, at which point the "oh look who showed up in my feed, why am I still subscribed to them" becomes moot, and any further decline isn't documented as nobody cares to pay attention.

Jim is unique in that regard, riding a failing formula into the ground with mechanical consistency. He is adamant that the problem is youtube, or the audience, or the haters, or the algorithm, or any combination of them, and not at all his content, style or delivery.

Jims content is like Ketchup on Shawarma at this point - I like the underlying content, but the garnish is criminal and intolerable, and I can very easily get it without that bullshit five minutes down the road.
 
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Retink Retunk said:
I don't think I've seen so much dedicated unsubscribing before over such a long period. It's impressive how much of a fuck up Jim is.
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It's not that impressive.

To constantly succeed at YouTube - you have to constantly innovate. Look at content from a few years ago (even someone like Markiplier or Pewdiepie) to today.

Jim is just pumping out the same tired shit week after week - only now with the innovation in the space, he's less likable, less professional, less informed and late. It's like comparing a newspaper to live TV news.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
It's not that impressive.

To constantly succeed at YouTube - you have to constantly innovate. Look at content from a few years ago (even someone like Markiplier or Pewdiepie) to today.

Jim is just pumping out the same tired shit week after week - only now with the innovation in the space, he's less likable, less professional, less informed and late. It's like comparing a newspaper to live TV news.
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I disagree with that last bit, he's not pumping out unevolved content, as plenty of people still pump out the same shit and still get views as well as growth like Zero Punctuation and Report of the Week. Hell, even someone who hasn't mattered for ages like ShoeNice is still maintaining his current subscriber levels.

Jim just found a way to make worse content that no one wants to watch and alienates former viewers. Even idubbbz hasn't had such consistent bleeding of subscribers in terms of percent.
 
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Retink Retunk said:
I disagree with that last bit, he's not pumping out unevolved content, as plenty of people still pump out the same shit and still get views as well as growth like Zero Punctuation and Report of the Week. Hell, even someone who hasn't mattered for ages like ShoeNice is still maintaining his current subscriber levels.

Jim just found a way to make worse content that no one wants to watch and alienates former viewers. Even idubbbz hasn't had such consistent bleeding of subscribers in terms of percent.
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I mean specifically the format.

Years ago a decently put together video, once a week, was cutting edge and enough to be ahead of the curve. Now there are YT'ers in the same space that put out better content daily. There's no point in waiting for the Jimquisition when you have a large pile of alternatives putting out better content faster.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
It's not that impressive.

To constantly succeed at YouTube - you have to constantly innovate. Look at content from a few years ago (even someone like Markiplier or Pewdiepie) to today.

Jim is just pumping out the same tired shit week after week - only now with the innovation in the space, he's less likable, less professional, less informed and late. It's like comparing a newspaper to live TV news.
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I'd agree if Jim's growth had just stopped. No matter how good your content is, for 99% of channels you will eventually hit a soft cap where everyone who'd be interested in your content has found it, so you'll get the odd new sub now and then but never hit another big milestone (case in point, I don't think Jim would have ever hit 1 million subs). At that point you can comfortably continue to pump out the same content for the rest of time and enjoy relatively consistent numbers.

What's impressive for Jim isn't the stagnation, or even the amount of subs he's lost, but the fact he's been losing so consistently for almost 3 years.

We should have hit a plateau a long time ago where everyone who hated New Jim had left, and only the diehards and zombie accounts remain, but somehow without fail every week or so another 1,000 subs decide to call it quits. It's truly bizarre and I've never seen another channel do this, although admittedly I don't monitor any other channel as autistically as Jim's.
 
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My understanding with any kind of contract work is that you're more than likely not to end up with a permanent gig at the end of it regardless of field, hell in one of the quotes Jim uses the person is clearly being hired for the busy Christmas period and should've expected to only be there for that. There is almost certainly some abuse going on but I can only look at contractors being surprised they're being used and thrown away as naive.
 
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Moja Zemlja said:
My understanding with any kind of contract work is that you're more than likely not to end up with a permanent gig at the end of it regardless of field, hell in one of the quotes Jim uses the person is clearly being hired for the busy Christmas period and should've expected to only be there for that. There is almost certainly some abuse going on but I can only look at contractors being surprised they're being used and thrown away as naive.
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That is correct. Contract work typically fucking sucks because they do not need a reason to not bring you back tomorrow outside of "we have nothing to give you". It's great when there is work to do, but once that dries up, you'd best have a backup plan for more work.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
It's not that impressive.

To constantly succeed at YouTube - you have to constantly innovate. Look at content from a few years ago (even someone like Markiplier or Pewdiepie) to today.

Jim is just pumping out the same tired shit week after week - only now with the innovation in the space, he's less likable, less professional, less informed and late. It's like comparing a newspaper to live TV news.
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Even DSP manages to stay at just over 200k despite pumping out dozens of zero-effort videos a week that barely crack 500 views. Whilst many may be dead accounts, it seems like short of some major scandal it takes a lot to make someone actively unsubscribe.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
Even DSP manages to stay at just over 200k despite pumping out dozens of zero-effort videos a week that barely crack 500 views. Whilst many may be dead accounts, it seems like short of some major scandal it takes a lot to make someone actively unsubscribe.
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DSP has (unintentionally) evolved though.

He's such an unhinged lunatic that he has scores of people hate watching him (including a full board here on Kiwifarms) - just waiting for some drama to happen. His intentional content is mediocre but his unintentional content (the Pandalee Arc, the Marriage Arc, the WWE game arc, the bankruptcy arc, the jerking off arc, etc) has been absolutely top notch.

Jim doesn't even have that - because "small Youtuber goes trans" has been done already like 10 times over. The best he can hope for is "first trans wrestler to severely injure/kill an actual female in the ring".
 
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Dumpster dived waifu said:
I really don't wish that on anyone, I'd much prefer the reverse where Jim was severely injured because he's too fat and lazy to assist his opponent in doing their moves.
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He's way more likely to injure someone else and he wrestles women.

It's not like they're grabbing these women off the street - they're all signing up for this. They watch the tapes, get the pitch, get paid dogshit and still say "Yeah let's do it".
 
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Retink Retunk said:
I disagree with that last bit, he's not pumping out unevolved content, as plenty of people still pump out the same shit and still get views as well as growth like Zero Punctuation and Report of the Week. Hell, even someone who hasn't mattered for ages like ShoeNice is still maintaining his current subscriber levels.

Jim just found a way to make worse content that no one wants to watch and alienates former viewers. Even idubbbz hasn't had such consistent bleeding of subscribers in terms of percent.
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Jim's content gets worse because he can't help but fill his videos with his faggatory, troonery and sexual degeneracy. If he stuck to his old formula of just making videos without all of that, or at least with it toned down significantly then he would at least slow the subscriber loss.
 
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Moja Zemlja said:

My understanding with any kind of contract work is that you're more than likely not to end up with a permanent gig at the end of it regardless of field, hell in one of the quotes Jim uses the person is clearly being hired for the busy Christmas period and should've expected to only be there for that. There is almost certainly some abuse going on but I can only look at contractors being surprised they're being used and thrown away as naive.
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The "Bioware laid off all unionized QA workers" claim is just a flat out lie. They worked at Keywords Studios and were contracted to work for Bioware on Dragon Age, the contract expired, and then Keywords Studios laid them off claiming there was no new work available for these employees. Basically Jim read the headline "All unionized Dragon Age: Dreadwolf QA workers have been laid off", got mad, and included it in the video without reading the article


 
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